Archives|LATEST INTELLIENCE; HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS. By Telegraph to the New - York Times. Magnetic Telegraph No.'s Offices--No. 49 wall-st., and 181 Broadway A Battle Between the Pro-Slavery and the Free-State Men. Five Men Killed and Several Wounded. Missourians Assembling on the Border --More lighting Expected --The Free-State Convention to Reasonable. Twenty Free-State Men Taken Prisoners.

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LATEST INTELLIENCE; HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS. By Telegraph to the New - York Times. Magnetic Telegraph No.'s Offices--No. 49 wall-st., and 181 Broadway A Battle Between the Pro-Slavery and the Free-State Men. Five Men Killed and Several Wounded. Missourians Assembling on the Border --More lighting Expected --The Free-State Convention to Reasonable. Twenty Free-State Men Taken Prisoners.

A Kansas letter to the Democrat says that on the evening of the 16th a battle occurred at Fort ?? between the Pro-Slavery and Free-State men. Five of the former were killed. among them BLAKE LITTLE, a member of the Lecompton convention several were wounded on both sides, and twenty Free-state men were taken prisoners, ad confined in the Fort.View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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A version of this archives appears in print on December 25, 1857, on Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: LATEST INTELLIENCE; HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS. By Telegraph to the New - York Times. Magnetic Telegraph No.'s Offices--No. 49 wall-st., and 181 Broadway A Battle Between the Pro-Slavery and the Free-State Men. Five Men Killed and Several Wounded. Missourians Assembling on the Border --More lighting Expected --The Free-State Convention to Reasonable. Twenty Free-State Men Taken Prisoners. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe